George Orwell

George Orwell was one of the most famous English writers of his time. He is best known for his novels Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm. Nineteen Eighty-Four was a profound anti-utopian novel that examines the dangers of totalitarian rule.

George was born as Eric Arthur Blair on June 25, 1903 in Motihari, India. His father was a minor customs official in the opium department of the Indian Civil Service. George Orwell was his pen name as he didn’t feel the name Eric was suitable for a writer.

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Orwell also joined the Indian Imperial Police, receiving his training in Burma where he served from 1922 to 1927.

On January 1, 1928, he resigned from the imperial police and started shaping his character as a writer.

The first book of George Orwell was ‘Down and Out in Paris and London’. It was published in 1933.

George Orwell’s second book was Burmese Days. It was published in 1934 and was about British colonialism in India.

In 1936 George fought in the Spanish Civil War, and was shot in the arm and the throat.

He escaped Spain along with his wife Eileen before he was taken into custody.

He not only wrote about state surveillance, he experienced it. The Soviet Union had an undercover agent spying on him.

Two of Orwell’s books Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four were made into movies.

He passed away on January 21, 1950 in London, England. He was 46 years old at that time.